Below is a sortable list of compositions by Mikhail Glinka. The works are categorized by genre, date of composition and titles. {| class="sortable wikitable" style="margins:auto; width=95%;" |- !width="95"| Genre !width="75"|Date !width=| Russian title (original title) !width=| English title ! style="width:220px;"| Scoring ! style="width:340px;"| Notes |- valign="top" | Stage || align=center|1834–1836 || Жизнь за царя || A Life for the Tsar || || Opera in 5 acts; new version (1837) in 4 acts and epilogue; original title: Ivan Susanin |- valign="top" | Stage || align=center|1836 || Ария с хором для дамы К. А. Бахтурина «Молдаванка и цыганка, или Золото и кинжал» || Aria with Chorus for Konstantin Bakhturin's Play "The Moldavian Girl and the Gypsy Girl" || || |- valign="top" | Stage || align=center|1837–1842 || Руслан и Людмила || Ruslan and Lyudmila || || Opera in 5 acts after Alexander Pushkin; 2nd version 1846 |- valign="top" | Stage || align=center|1840 || Музыка к трагедии Н. В. Кукольника «Князь Холмский» || Prince Kholmsky || for orchestra 3. for voice and orchestra 4. for voice and orchestra 6. for voice and orchestra || Incidental music for the tragedy by Nestor Kukolnik |- valign="top" | Stage || align=center|1841 || Тарантелла || Tarantella || for narrator, chorus and orchestra || words by Ivan Myatlev (Иван Петрович Мятлев) |- valign="top" | Orchestra || align=center|1822–1826? || Увертюра D-dur || Overture in D major || for orchestra || |- valign="top" | Orchestra || align=center|1822–1826? || Увертюра g-moll || Overture in G minor || for orchestra || |- valign="top" | Orchestra || align=center|1823? || Andante cantabile и Rondo || Andante cantabile and Rondo in D minor || for orchestra || |- valign="top" | Orchestra || align=center|1824? || Симфония B-dur || Symphony in B major || for orchestra || unfinished |- valign="top" | Orchestra || align=center|1834 || Симфония на две русские темы || Symphony on Two Russian Themes in D minor || for orchestra || unfinished; completed and orchestrated by Vissarion Shebalin |- valign="top" | Orchestra || align=center|1839, 1856 || Вальс-фантазия || Waltz-Fantasia in B minor || for orchestra || a.k.a. Valse-Fantaisie; original version for piano (1839); orchestrated in 1845 (lost); reorchestrated in 1856 |- valign="top" | Orchestra || align=center|1845 || Испанская увертюра № 1 «Блестящее каприччио на тему Арагонской хоты» || Spanish Overture No. 1 "Capriccio Brilliante on the Jota Aragonesa" || for orchestra || |- valign="top" | Orchestra || align=center|1848 || Камаринская || Kamarinskaya, Scherzo / Fantasia on